Helen Gurley Brown - RIP. You were the greatest !

[thetinymagic2]

Helen Gurley Brown - RIP. You were the greatest !#1

Posted: 8/13/12 at 11:25pm

I worked for her right out of college. One of the greatest women I ever met. A true feminine feminist and hardest worker ever for equal rights for ALL when it really mattered. A true pioneer, and always a girly girl!

[romantico]

Helen Gurley Brown - RIP. You were the greatest !#2

Posted: 8/14/12 at 1:02am

I wish I knew more about her. Did she ever write her memoir? I knew of her husband.Helen was one of those rare women who looked incredible at 90.Look at that smile and she had so much style! Sad to say, people of this class and era are a dying breed.



http://www.latimes.com/features/image/alltherage/la-ar-helen-gurley-brown-20120813,0,3205528.story



Was Helen by chance the inspiration for Kay Thompson's character in FUNNY FACE? I heard them speak of Helen's pink corner office and,well,I thought Pink!

'There are three sides to every story. My side, your side, and the truth. And no one is lying. Memories shared serve each one differently' -Robert Evans-

[thetinymagic2]

Helen Gurley Brown - RIP. You were the greatest !#2

Posted: 8/14/12 at 2:06am

imagine if you will, when THIS movie came out in 1964, (Sex and the Single Girl - Natalie Wood, Tony Curtis, etc.) it was considered "scandalous". Bad movie - tons of fun to watch.

HGB's life was pretty interesting. Look at WIKI.

[Q]

Helen Gurley Brown - RIP. You were the greatest !#3

Posted: 8/14/12 at 3:00am

She makes Anna Wintour look like the impostor she is.
And feminism didn't embrace her in her time - much to their embarrassment, as it turns out.

[Mrs Mangel]

Helen Gurley Brown - RIP. You were the greatest !#4

Posted: 8/14/12 at 7:22am

This one's going out to Romantico- one of the best reads of my life!
I'm Wild Again>

[romantico]

Helen Gurley Brown - RIP. You were the greatest !#5

Posted: 8/14/12 at 7:29am

Thank you Mrs. Mangel! After I posted I checked out Amazon and was pleasantly surprised. Not sure where to begin but I added your recommendation to my wishlist.

'There are three sides to every story. My side, your side, and the truth. And no one is lying. Memories shared serve each one differently' -Robert Evans-

[PalJoey]

Helen Gurley Brown - RIP. You were the greatest !#6

Posted: 8/14/12 at 7:46am

Begin with "Sex and the Single Girl," of course. One of her later books, "Having It All," was one of the most influential books in my my life.

She was not a scholar, she was not a deep thinker, but she was a strong, positive-thinking woman whose natural feminism was fueled by the more radical and more angry politics of the doctrinaire feminists, who were mostly annoyed by her.

"Having It All" came out in 1982 and described "mouseburgers" as women who are not pretty, who only have a decent education, and who don't come from wealthy or influential family backgrounds. In other words: Everywoman. She gave them rules, tools and techniques that could help them develop the street smarts they needed to gain "deep love, true friends, money, fame, satisfying days and nights."

I still don't know why this book influenced me so much, but the book was better than therapy for me.

[sabrelady]

Helen Gurley Brown - RIP. You were the greatest !#7

Posted: 8/14/12 at 10:59am

What your forgetting about her "mouseburger" message was that it ended with and "men ignore you then come with me cause I was a mouseburger too". She and Cosmo ( to B fair they did promote women's sexuality) were all about the guy. Finding the guy, getting him , keeping him esp using "feminine wiles". It(still) promotes that unreasonable expectation( marriage) of unearned success as the endgame for women. Like Claire Booth Luce, she married a man who was wealth &y successful and that gave her financial security that most women still claw for. ( No? see "Millionare Matchmaker" ) and that's what 2nd Wave Feminisim had a problem with. Altho she herself was a working successful magazine editor. (frankly, there just aint enuf rich guys to go around so sisters are doing it for themselves!)

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[sabrelady]

Helen Gurley Brown - RIP. You were the greatest !#8

Posted: 8/14/12 at 11:18am

Oh and I think the Funny Face character was based on Diana Vreeland.

[CarlosAlberto]

Helen Gurley Brown - RIP. You were the greatest !#9

Posted: 8/14/12 at 4:19pm

Not a great film by any stretch of the imagination but it has it's moments, SEX AND THE SINGLE GIRL starred Natalie Wood as a fictionalized version of Helen Gurley Brown and the only thing it had in common with it's book counterpart was it's title. Lauren Bacall and Henry Fonda are hilarious in it.

R.I.P. Helen Gurley Brown